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Wildfires in Chifunde

Chifunde, Mozambique, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 6,970 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 50).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 28 Extreme 42° · 14 % · 38 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 32 % · 48 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very high 34° · 25 % · 46 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very high 35° · 22 % · 39 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very high 36° · 19 % · 31 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very high 38° · 18 % · 30 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Extreme 39° · 13 % · 41 km/h
  8. Wed 4 High 40° · 22 % · 57 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

6,970
hectares burned
0.7 %
of its area
2
fires
9,458
km²

How many times has Chifunde burned?

Chifunde has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2018 and 2026. The most recent: Chifunde fire, September 2026, with 3,715 hectares inside the municipality.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
6,970
cumulative ha
10 Sept 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 3,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Mozambique →

Fires that entered Chifunde

  1. 3,715 ha Chifunde fire, September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,700 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 3,256 ha Chifunde fire, August 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,239 ha in total · 15 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Mozambique INE (Instituto Nacional de Estatistica), OCHA ROSEA (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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